Subscriber Content Risk management: Is your ASC vulnerable?
During a preoperative screening, a nurse learns that a patient scheduled for a hernia operation in your ambulatory surgery center (ASC) has several comorbidities, including cardiac disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The history and physical are sketchy. In another case, a patient seems confused about the procedure she is…
Subscriber Content Financial benchmarking for your ASC
How many staff members should we have per case? Are our supply costs per case on target? How many employees do we need in our business office? Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) managers looking for answers can turn to financial benchmarking reports. Benchmarking can be useful in seeing how your ASC…
Subscriber Content GAO agrees with CMS on basing ASC pay on hospital outpatient pay
Medicare is on the right track in planning to base ambulatory surgery center (ASC) payments on the system used to pay hospitals for their outpatient procedures, says a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Congress called for the report in 2003 to see how accurately hospital outpatient payment…
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